noun:

• skin eruptions caused by a cold or fever - obscure term ➜ ほろ子【ほろし】

noun:

• caretaker (at a zoo or aquarium); keeper; attendant; breeding staff

noun / ~する noun:

• plan; device; scheme; program
• thoughts or suggestions about a law

noun:

• running a start-up company after work or on weekends

noun:

• family or brothel with a beautiful woman
• vermillion-lacquered mansion - orig. meaning

noun:

• doing or saying something a little stupid

noun:

• technique for catching gobies using a straw mat or basket - obscure term

noun:

• single-layer absorbent bathrobe (worn during or after a bath) - archaism ➜ 湯帷子

noun:

• evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine) ➜ 賢木

noun:

• tossed coin (to a street performer or beggar)

noun:

• promise to repay a debt after achieving promotion or success

expression / noun:

• fishing, esp. using a net or trap; catching fish

noun:

• regular respondent to a periodical or radio program - slang

noun:

• kite with a (kanji or kana) character written on it

expression:

• prevention is better than cure; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure; look before you leap; forewarned is forearmed; a stitch in time saves nine; a walking stick before stumbling [literal] - proverb

noun:

• altered photograph, usu. with sexual connotations, such as putting someone's face on top of a picture of a nude idol, etc. - From English "idol collage"

noun:

• collar; lapel; neckband; neck
• nape of the neck; scruff of the neck

noun / ~する noun:

• disclosure; leak (of information); divulging
• leakage (e.g. of gas or liquids); leak; escape (e.g. of gas); coming in (through) (e.g. of light)

noun:

• data density; packing density (deprecated in this sense) - IT term

noun:

• firing line; position where one is subject to questioning, criticism, etc. ➜ 矢面に立つ
• direction of a flying arrow (fired by the enemy) - orig. meaning

noun:

• digging up, removing sprouts from, and replanting tubers (esp. of the sweet potato) to make for a bigger end product

noun:

• light used as a religious offering ➜ 御灯・神灯
• paper lantern (hung up near the door of performers and geishas)

noun:

• Buddhist decoration engraved with various motifs, often made from gilt copper (e.g. for adorning the inner shrine of a temple) - Buddhism term

noun / ~する noun:

• dozing off in the middle of doing something; becoming inactive online due to falling asleep (esp. during a multi-player game)

adverbial noun / noun:

• all over the country; throughout the land; every nook and cranny of the land - four character idiom